R9 290 in 2021?

[Hamzah_919]

I found an r9 290 for a decent price (120$). I just want to know if its worth spending a little more to get something much more recent. Like an rx 570. Or a gtx 1050. I just want to get a card to last me for about a year and a half. Where we can (hopefully) buy a gpu at msrp.

[Herman Mcpootis]

it's around an RX 570/580 in performance, but AMD recently dropped support for it.

[CommanderAlex]

As @Herman Mcpootis said, AMD just recently dropped support for this graphics card and is now in Legacy drivers. The card will still work, but can't guarantee software related issues in newer titles with the graphics card. In general, GCN architecture is out to pasture now. IIRC, this leaves Polaris (RX 400 series) and newer architectures to be supported by AMD.

[mariushm]

Yeah, sorry, I'd pass on it.  

It's too many generations old, and you'll have more and more problems with games no longer supporting it, having glitches and crashes in games...

Polaris (rx 5xx) will have longer support, as versions of these chips are in consoles, so game engines will support them for longer time ... so they make more sense.

 

RX 570 will be better than gtx 1050 in performance.

[Hamzah_919]

5 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

As @Herman Mcpootis said, AMD just recently dropped support for this graphics card and is now in Legacy drivers. The card will still work, but can't guarantee software related issues in newer titles with the graphics card. In general, GCN architecture is out to pasture now. IIRC, this leaves Polaris (RX 400 series) and newer architectures to be supported by AMD.

Yea. I ditched the r9 290. Can i compare the rx 560 to a rx 570?. Or something like a 1060?

[CommanderAlex]

12 minutes ago, Hamzah_919 said:

Yea. I ditched the r9 290. Can i compare the rx 560 to a rx 570?. Or something like a 1060?

Are you comparing the 560 to a 570? Or to the R9 290? The 1060 will be slightly better than a RX 570 and RX 560. 

[Hamzah_919]

On 9/23/2021 at 10:36 PM, CommanderAlex said:

Are you comparing the 560 to a 570? Or to the R9 290? The 1060 will be slightly better than a RX 570 and RX 560. 

 

On 9/23/2021 at 10:22 PM, Hamzah_919 said:

Yea. I ditched the r9 290. Can i compare the rx 560 to a rx 570?. Or something like a 1060?

 

On 9/23/2021 at 5:24 PM, mariushm said:

Yeah, sorry, I'd pass on it.  

It's too many generations old, and you'll have more and more problems with games no longer supporting it, having glitches and crashes in games...

Polaris (rx 5xx) will have longer support, as versions of these chips are in consoles, so game engines will support them for longer time ... so they make more sense.

 

RX 570 will be better than gtx 1050 in performance.

 

On 9/23/2021 at 5:01 PM, CommanderAlex said:

As @Herman Mcpootis said, AMD just recently dropped support for this graphics card and is now in Legacy drivers. The card will still work, but can't guarantee software related issues in newer titles with the graphics card. In general, GCN architecture is out to pasture now. IIRC, this leaves Polaris (RX 400 series) and newer architectures to be supported by AMD.

 

On 9/23/2021 at 4:57 PM, Herman Mcpootis said:

it's around an RX 570/580 in performance, but AMD recently dropped support for it.

UPDATE - Finally settled on xfc Rx 570 4gb for about 150usd. It was a good decision to ditch the r9 290 lol.